All, quick update. I have both day and night testing completed and am in the process of editing all these together. Currently encoding the day 'Dahua vs Hikvision 4K' clips and will upload them then will move onto the night.
I looked back at some of WC reviews of past Dahua camera's and that patio area and wall is not the right White Balance and this is comparing it to the 12mp Model 71242 but the Hikvision is very close in terms of WB not looking at pixels or sharpness here.Thanks for wildcat's testing. From my young eyes, the wall from dahua is more to the real color of the wall. dh Pic is a little better than hik
I agree with you. The Dahua is sharper closer in. Just look at the lightbulbs. However the Hikvision is sharper further away. Look at the wood chips in the planter and the trees in the background. Thank you Wildcat-1 for the excellent review. Looking forward to the night comparison.Thanks for the Daytime clips WC and my thoughts are the Hikvision wins hands down no doubt as to me more detail and dynamic range with much better colour than the saturated Dahua. One thing I did notice is the Dahua seams to be sharper close range looking at the wooden pogonia and the string lights but further away it looks like mush where the Hikvision still looks sharp looking at the pale green tree and the pattern on the houses across your street but close up the Hikvision looks OOF looking at the wooden Pogonia and string lights.
I also wanted to comment on how the test was set up with the same settings in each camera and would it not be better to have the settings looking the best they can on each camera rather than the same on each.
I am looking forward to the night time clips as I think this is what matters to most people.
Dahua lens is focussed for close range
Hikvision Lens is focused for long range
Excellent work once again very detailed and thanks for sharing.
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WC...You need 1 of these to do your testing in ....the good old TV test pattern. ( Oops now I'm giving away my age ).as a quick reference and you can see the white on the hoodie is represented on the Dahua better than the Hikvision on the right BUT again both don’t balance correctly for the entire scene on defaults as I mentioned.
Great video. I find the Hik the winner.
I don't have time to critique properly atm but the differences I'm seeing are:
1. Different saturation and color temp - Dahua wamer, Hik cold
2. Different depth of field explained by a later finding
3. I'm not seeing the Hik as too sharp. That's how I like a picture - able to see every blade of grass and that isn't down to sharpening in my opinion but probably compression levels. Personally, I don't see an excess of sharpening - this would manifest itself in artacts and at a quick glance I'm not seeing them
4. More detail in the Hik especially at range
5 Slightly better clarity to the overall image although no detail lost as a result in favour of Dahua. Hik has a slight mist effect. Maybe the lens quality or maybe the settings as the Hik is flatter